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Margaret Atwood

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Atwood separates the narrator’s experiences into three parts. The reader learns about the narrator as she learns about herself. In the first part, Atwood’s narrator explores her views on poverty, rural and city life in Canada, the Canadian political life in the early 1970’s, and the American conflict in Vietnam, in addition to considering her life’s choices and changes. The narrator’s voice strengthens as the novel progresses...

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